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The Division for Early Childhood is now accepting proposals for its 35th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families. DEC is seeking proposals that demonstrate meaningful, effective, and sustainable collaborations across research, policy, and practice to increase learning opportunities for every child, family, and community through everyday routines and interactions. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019. View the Call for Proposals for more information.

Our popular Data Governance and Management Toolkit is now available in PDF form! Now you can share individual sections or the full toolkit with colleagues in hard copy form, as well as online. Simply look for the green PDF links at the top right of each section of the Toolkit.

This November 2018 report from the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) and the Center for the Study of Social Policy offers case studies from Indianola, Mississippi; Ventura County, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania using their early childhood data in clear and important ways to tailor more effective interventions and yield better results. Key themes that emerged were the importance of organizing a community around a collective goal; improving the quality of early childhood services; informing critical public policy decisions, and the need for a respected “backbone” organization to oversee data collection and support data use efforts.